Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- A group of specialists from Rospotrebnadzor may soon visit Uzbekistan to advise Uzbek partners on organizing events in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

“The arrival of a group of Rospotrebnadzor specialists is planned to advise Uzbek partners on the organization of anti-epidemic measures. We suppose that this visit will take place in the near future and we hope that the measures taken together with our friends will improve the epidemiological situation in Uzbekistan,” she said.

The diplomat noted that in order to help Uzbekistan in the fight against the pandemic, the Russian side donated over a thousand Russian-made test systems for diagnosing coronavirus infection from March to July, TASS reports.

The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman also noted that “on 16 August, a team of Russian doctors - 38 people - was sent to Tashkent. It included anesthesiologists, resuscitators, pulmonologists, infectious disease specialists, cardiologists, general practitioners from Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan.

Within a month, they will provide practical and methodological assistance to Uzbek colleagues in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in clinics in Tashkent, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Jizzakh and other regions.